Education and Degrees

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Research Projects

September - November 2014

"Economic and statistic analysis of the factors determined character and dependence path of enterprises financial performance from price (tariff) dynamics for products (services) provided by natural monopolies" (Federal Tariff Service of Russia, state agreement №1-73-1-6/11 dated on August 11, 2014, Certification of completion dated on December 10, 2014).

April 2013 - June 2013

"Creation of performance measurement system for academic activity of units and full-time faculty and research fellow for the purpose of performance improvement in decision making by management of Russian Higher Education Institutions (with the approbation level no less than in 3 Higher Education Institutions with different specializations)" (state agreement № 02.521.11.0006 dated on 27.02.2013)

September 2012 - February 2013

"Formation of the system monitoring science economics for performance assessing the field of science, technology and demonstration of new academic achievements" (state agreement with the Russian Ministry of Science and Education, № 13.521.12.1011 dated on September 26, 2011),

From July until August 2012

"Development of program software experimental sample for analysis of science, education and innovation activity statistics with usage of advanced methods: data pattern analysis and ontological modeling" (state agreement with the Russian Ministry of Science and Education dated on 14.06.2012 in the frame of Federal Targeted Program "R&D on prioritized directions of scientific and technological complex development for 2007-2013 years")

From October 2011 until December 2012

Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO), OECD

From October 2011 until December 2012

Project between NRU HSE and Avikomp Services ZAO "Creation of high-technology production of innovative program and hardware-based complex for effective management of enterprises and industries in modern Russia"

The HSE ISSEK experts compared data about the application of technological, marketing, and organisational innovations by the Russian knowledge-intensive business services sector (KIBS) companies with relevant figures for European countries such as the UK, Germany, Denmark, Malta, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The results are presented in the latest newsletter in the "Science, Technology, and Innovation" series.

The new issue of Foresight and STI Governance (2016, vol. 10, No. 4) presents the results of Russian-based studies to assess import substitution prospects, discuss the current state of the knowledge-intensive business services sector, and looks at the impact of fixed-term employment contracts on companies’ innovation activities. Furthermore, international experts share their methodological recommendations on boosting the effectiveness of European innovation policy, and designing technology development strategies.

From August 23rd-27th a meeting of Nobel laureates in economics took place in Lindau, Germany. This event is traditionally organized once every three years. Henry Penikas, lecturer at the HSE Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics and one of the participants at this meeting, told us about the event.